Description: A. Photo, black and white, wood and glass frame. School children standing outside the old school house on schoolhouse hill ca. 1892 or 1893. (This old school house is now Malcolm Donald's house on Cranberry Road across from the GCIHS.) Donor related, "This picture was found behind the eaves of an upstairs closet where it had no doubt accidentally fallen many decades ago. Our house was formerly owned by Eber Spurling. The names of the people are written (in good handwriting!) by pencil, as follows, on the back of the picture frame. It would be interesting if those with local knowledge could calculate the approximate year of this photograph, and recall the married names of the girls and young women in the picture." . Stored with a booklet of the scanned photographs printed with names of individuals overlaid. B. Inscription on back of frame reads - "Back row left to right: 1. Lena Ladd, 2. Miss Rich - teacher, 3. Millicent Harding - Frank Bunker, 4. Sadie Harding, 5. Brother Spurling, 6. Sadie Bunker, 7. Lena Spurling, 8. Annie Bunker, 9. Millard Spurling, 10. Perly Stanley, 11. Elma (or Elna?) Stanley, 12. Maurice Stanley. Second Row: Ida Stover, Alfred Ladd, Addie Stanley, Vida Stanley. Third Row: Roy Bulger, Charles Richardson, Johnnie Steele, Philmore Steele, and Harvey Bulger." C. (A second print of this photograph in poor condition was discovered in March 2014 and is stored with a framed copy as (C).) (Compare with 2014.272.2018.) [show more]
Description: Certificate of Marriage between John H. Hamor of Cranberry Isles Maine and Sadie B. Cleoses of Steuben Maine, at Steuben on 21 November 1894, signed by Robert Sutcliff, Pastor, Methodist E. Church Milbridge; with elaborate color illustrations; framed
Description: Pew 21 in the Union Meeting House, formerly owned by Wm. P. Preble and given to C. E. Harwood for use of the people in 1896; with the death of Harwood 1897, the Pew reverted back to Preble, and Preble, at the request of A. C. Wheelwright, did verbally allow him right to claim said Pew [thus apparently causing legal inaccuracies]. Preble now conveys the pew to Mrs. Frances A. Spurling. Signed by Wm. P. Preble December A.D. 1898, witnessed by Carrie M. Richardson and Lucinda Fernald [show more]
Description: Letter 3 of 3 from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble on Chicago Rawhide MFG Co. (Chicago) letterhead. One page with transcription.
Description: Letter 2 of 3 from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble on Chicago Rawhide MFG Co. (Chicago) letterhead. Three pages with transcription.
Description: A photo of students attending the kindergarten school for summer residents of Bar Harbor at the Albert Meadow Clearfield Cottage. Identified in photo: Beatrice Chandler Alice Whiting Alice Damrosch Bill and Margaret Schieffelin Hester Chanler Maurice Fremont-Smith Julia Whiting Alice Eastman
Description: A photo of grades 1-4 at the Forest St. School in Bar Harbor. Identified in photo: Shirley Brewer (2nd row - 3rd from left) Henry Soper (3rd row - 6th from left) Lotti Brewer Ells (3rd row - 7th from left) Phoebe Marshall (3rd row - 4th from left) Byron Brewer (2nd row - 2nd from left)
Description: A monthly magazine devoted to the history of Maine towns and families. Volume IX, No. 5, May 1898. Two Dollars Per Annum. Single number twenty five cents.
Description: Framed oil painting by John Greenlead Cloudman depicting a boy and girl standing on a rocky coast setting a fishing line up. A dog sits behind them.
Description: Photographs of Old Ships from Collection of Miss Mary Wheelwright. Scrapbook with photographs of yachts and sailboats and photocopy of "Early Yachting Days at Northeast Harbor" written by Miss Mary Cabot Wheelwright. Shows family and friends aboard the Hesper, trips to islands, the Cranberry Club, scenes of the harbor in Northeast Harbor. 1. M. C. Wheelwright at age 17 2. M. C. Wheelwright at age 21 3. Captain Stanley 5. Mary Wheelwright 9-10: Northeast Harbor, 1894 13-16: Aboard "HESPER" 22: Steamboat 23-24: HESPER 25: Branscom's Wharf 26: Tennis Club 28: Teakettle Party aboard HESPER; from left to right: C. Hemenway, L. Stevenson, A. Greenough, C. Hardy, Mary Wheelwright, K. Thompson, G. W. Peabody, M. Scull 29: Bear Island from Clifton Dock; HESPER in background 30: Dirt trails through woods; goats in pasture 31: Bottom center: Hamor Home, Cranberry Isle, as seen from the Cranberry Club 32, 34: HESPER 35: Probably NORDICA 37-39: Gott's Island 40: Woman on boat 41: Young child 42, 44: Wheelwright float 43: Cranberry Club, 1896 45: Landing in Cranberry Pool for a picnic at the Club, 1896 53-56: R.K.R., K.T., Northeast Harbor to Long Island, 1913 58-61: Penobscot River, 1902 62-66: Yacht ALOHA 67: Mackerel Fleet in Cranberry or Southwest Harbor 69-71: Coaster "Fannie Earl" 74: Wheelwright Point seen from Clifton Dock. Bear Island is center right, c. 1884. 75: Probably the Corning's sloop HARRIET 77: Boothbay 79: HESPER 82: North Haven 83-86: Boothbay, September 1903 87, 88: Portland 89: September cruise off Beverly Islands 90: Southwest Harbor [show more]
Description: Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Three figures on bridge, two of whom wear white dresses and hats; third (shorter) figure in darker clothing. Lumber Mill in background. Negative; 3 7/8" h X 4 7/8"w
Description: Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Three figures on bridge, two of whom wear white dresses and hats; third (shorter) figure in darker clothing. Lumber Mill in background. Black and white printed on photo. paper with white border; 5" h X 7"w
Description: Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Three figures on bridge, two of whom wear white dresses and hats; third (shorter) figure in darker clothing. Lumber Mill in back ground. Marked on back, “Brook at Somesville.” Sepia toned printed on thin paper; 4.5" h X 6 5/8"w
Description: Somes Brook, trees on banks, reeds in lower right corner. Three figures on bridge, two of whom wear white dresses and hats; third (shorter) figure in darker clothing. Lumber Mill in back ground. Marked on back, “On Somes Stream, 1894. duplicate, Property of MDI Hist.Soc.” Sepia toned printed on thin paper; 45/8" h X 6 3/4"w
Description: Mount Desert house taken from across road. Two black horses with carriage in front of house, one man seated in carriage. Crowd of people out front. Woman and man in doorway, woman and two children standing on steps, three men standing and one seated. Large flagpole to left with “Mt. Desert House, 1888” sign on it. Picket fence running along right side of lawn. Most shutters are open, except for two windows in middle nearest chimney. This print has been attributed to W.H. Ballard, but the photo is probably too early for Ballard to have taken it. Also known as Mount Desert Tavern. [show more]
Description: Children standing on steps of Somesville School House. Front door open. Teachers standing in back row to the left. Thirty nine in photo including at least two teachers. Boys dressed in knee pants, some with sweaters and caps, others in jackets. Boots of children in front row very dirty. One boy stands between posts. Edges of photo very worn, peeling away from mat.
Description: Unknown woman holding lead on halter of horse. Horse has three white socks with one leg dark, white blaze from middle of nose to nostrils and star on forehead. Woman wears hair pulled back with tailored jacket of light shade with black men’s style tie and straight long dark skirt. Small trees and meadow in background. Marked on back, “August, 1892 - Old ‘Dick’.”
Description: Sally Trask Somes holding Georgia N. Somes as baby. Sally Somes seated in chair; white hair wearing spectacles, leaning over baby, wears striped skirt with black bodice. Baby wearing long white dress. House in back ground with lattice work around foundation. Marked on back, “Sally Trask Somes wife of Daniel Somes, Jr., Georgia N. Somes, his grandaugter [sic] born Jan 24, 1890. Given by Daniel Somes Smith 1978.”
Description: Marbled Book with paper mend on binding Minutes of meetings from the Somesville Christian Endeavor Society Journal, Somesville Union Meeting House U.C.C. (Congregational Church) from 8/27/1895 -11/13/1912
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 7/29/1999. A listing of the summer visitors, including Pulitzer, Senator McMillan and the Philip Livingstones.
Description: Bar Harbor Times Times Past article by Deborah Dyer , 05/13/1999 A collection of misc. items. The following names were mentioned and a few lines about what they were doing: Julius Kurson, Franklin Pray, A.S. Getchell, M.T. Kavanagh, Beatrix Jones, George Dorr, Edgar Scott. Also information about the steamer, Cimbria and the steam yacht, Ladoga. On the back an article about the history of fish stocking. It goes back to 1882.